Chapter 185: Three Arrows Set in the Firmament
Amidst the many gazes on the city wall, Huang Zhong pulled out a new bow from the side of the horse's belly.
Compared to the strong bow he had just thrown away, this one was bigger and had a thicker bowstring.
Huang Zhong rubbed the bow as if he was holding some peerless treasure, this bow was given to him by the general of Beifu when he came out of the queue just now.
At that time, the general of Beifu gave him a bow and asked him to use it to kill the enemy's morale, but Huang Zhong felt that the two stone bows he had before were enough to complete this task.
Now that he knew that there was a master in the enemy's army, he took out the bow without hiding it.
He looked solemn as if he were on a pilgrimage, tied a cloth bag to the arrowhead, and bit a dead knot with his mouth.
The strong enemy on the city tower did not shoot arrows at him again, Huang Zhong finished all this from a safe distance, and then coldly glanced at the city head, and said loudly: "Huang has a down-and-out life, and the general of Beifu has given me a chance to make a name for himself as a nobleman, today, I will let you know what a bow and arrow is!" ”
With that, he pointed his bow to the ground and wound his arrows.
The arrow is still the same as before, but the string is no longer the string it used to be.
After the strings were set, Huang Zhong looked at the city head coldly.
Wu Ju was shocked by his momentum and was so frightened that he retreated again, Jian Yong wanted to hold on, but Zhao Yun pulled him back.
Jian Yong wanted to say something, but Zhao Yun said bitterly: "That bow has three stones!" ”
"What?"
Exclamations abounded the city walls.
Ordinary soldiers, the strength of opening a stone bow is already amazing, and the old general surnamed Huang outside the city wall actually opened a three-stone bow?
"What a joke!"
Wu Ju's mouth trembled when he spoke.
Legend has it that the ancient marksman raised Yuki to open the bow of three stones, in addition, for more than a thousand years, Yanhuang Huaxia has never heard of anyone who can open a bow of three stones!
For them, this is really a fantasy. Especially Wu Ju is still a military general, and he understands the difficulties of the three-stone bow.
A sturdy man may not be able to pull the bowstring.
"It's true."
Zhao Yun was sure again that the reason why he didn't shoot another arrow just now was because it was easy for the other party to dodge at this distance, but if he shot the arrow again, it would anger the other party and let the other party's arrow shoot towards him.
Although he is excellent in martial arts, he will not take such a risk lightly.
"But his arrow has a burden on it, and it is not surprising that it is a human head, even if it is a three-stone bow, it is impossible to shoot such a heavy human head!"
Wu Ju breathed a sigh of relief, yes, although the strong bow is strong, but with such a big burden, how can he go to the city? At most, if you shoot halfway, it will fall because the hanging thing is too heavy.
Since he couldn't shoot it, he had the confidence to come to the city again, and shouted tremblingly: "Old horseman, Hugh is talking nonsense!" What a head! ”
"Wait for someone to go up the wall, and then look at my nonsense from time to time!"
Huang Zhong replied loudly, and then he began to tighten the bowstring.
He moves meticulously, just like when he was learning to shoot arrows when he was younger.
He had never had a three-stone bow in his home, but he was confident that he would definitely be able to draw such a strong bow when he was young.
Now, as he did when he was younger, he bent his bow again.
This time, he would not have been so desperate, but General Beifu said that he would let him deter the enemy.
In the past, he always had complaints about Cao Wu's hairless boy's command of the army, but when Cao Wu gave him the bow, he was finally completely convinced.
General Beifu actually knew that he loved to bend his bow and shoot arrows, and knew that he wanted such a strong bow the most.
General Beifu had the grace of knowing him, let him re-enter the battlefield when he was old, and gave him such a heavy treasure.
Since Cao Wu trusts him so much, then he, Huang Zhong, will deter the enemy army!
"Open!"
Huang Zhong shouted angrily, the green tendons on his arms burst out, and the bowstring slowly pulled back.
"Open!"
Huang Zhong shouted again, and in full view of everyone, the bowstring gradually rose into a full moon.
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On a low slope not far behind Huang Zhong, Cao Wu and the others were looking here.
For this Cangwu City, he does not plan to storm it, Lu Xun and Zhuge Liang have repeatedly calculated, Cangwu has a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, and if there are more, the poor soldiers will not be able to support it at all, even if they are temporarily recruited in wartime, the combat power will be very stretched.
He had already received the news that Yu Ban's troops had defeated more than 2,000 people led by King Hu of Cangwu in Bucheon and routed them.
Cangwu County has not fought for too long, and it is normal for them to use 2,000 people to attack the 1,000 people who have set up camp in Yu Ban.
After the attack was frustrated, when Wang Hu retreated, Yu Ban sent deputy generals Bao Long and Chen Ying from Guiyang County out of the camp to pursue, and the two joined forces to capture Wang Hu, killing 400 enemies in a battle, and the rest of the people fled.
When the deserters passed through Fengyang, they were intercepted by Biqiu Jian, and many of them died, and the others either surrendered or hid in the mountains, and there was no one who even came back to report the news.
As for the Ou Jing Department, which Wu Ju valued the most, after Ou Jing's death, they basically surrendered.
They fought in the middle of the night, killing more than 2,000 enemies, taking more than 3,000 prisoners, and only a few hundred reserves fled into the mountains.
And the death of the Biqiu Jian Department and the Xu Huang Department was only 200, plus the death of only a few people in the Cao Xiu Department, a total of less than 500 people died.
Five hundred against two thousand, and capture the enemy, but also behead the enemy, this is a good enough victory, if it is not for the district scenery to arrange the reserve army behind the mountain, Cao Xiu can go down the mountain early, I am afraid that Biqiu Jian They can't even kill three hundred people to defeat the enemy.
It's a pity that Mi Fang escaped in the end.
With these two big victories, Cao Wu was no longer ready to storm Guangxin.
The name of Guangxin is taken from the holy decree of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "the beginning of Guangdong, it is advisable to spread the letter of grace", when the country of Nanyue began from Zhao Tuo, and divided Lingnan for nearly a hundred years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered people to go south to destroy Nanyue, and gave the name of Guangxin.
In later generations, similar to Henan and Hebei with the Zhanghe River as the boundary, Shandong and Shanxi with the Taihang Mountains as the boundary, Hunan and Hubei with the Dongting Lake as the boundary, and Guangdong and Guangxi as the boundary with this Guangxin City.
At that time, Guangxin had declined, and even the vast majority of Chinese people could no longer say what the "Guang" in Guangdong and Guangxi meant.
But in this era, not to mention Lingnan, looking at the south, Guangxin is the leading big city.
In this place of "Guangbu Enxin", Wu Ju has been operating for many years, and Guangxin City is high and strong, which is rare in the south.
Not to mention that there are at least a few thousand garrisons in the city, and the grain and grass are estimated to be able to support it for a long time.
In this situation, a strong attack is not impossible, but it is difficult to say in terms of time, and it is even more difficult to say about casualties.
Cao Wu was not afraid of fighting, but after learning that Zhou Yu might have gone to Jiaozhi County, he had no time to spend on attacking Guangxin.
He has to compete with Zhou Yu to see if Zhou Yu occupies Jiaozhi Kuai, or if he occupies Cangwu Kuai.
He believed that Zhou Yu had the same idea, and he must have a plan and would not attack.
Therefore, since yesterday he had encamped and not besieged, he had thought of these tricks of outwitting.
And outwitting is better than suppressing the opponent's morale first.
Thinking of this, Cao Wu glanced at Ah Ba next to him and said with a smile: "Thank you for bringing the strong bow." ”
Ah Ba's eyes were like crescent moons, and he smiled and narrowed into a line, and said softly: "It's written in the general's list." ”
Although her main target is Jiang Wan, Dong Yun, and Fei Yi, she also has a preference for other people in the southern four counties, and she also has a lot of favorites, these three stone strong bows, which she brought, were prepared by Ah Ba according to the list and characteristics in her hands, and it took a lot of effort to get it, if it wasn't for the fact that Beifu was rich enough, she wouldn't be able to get such a good thing.
Cao Wuunable felt Huang Zhong's imminent departure from him.
After all, Wei Yan is young, and Cao Wu trusts him, so he immediately has no heart, but Cao Wu is the first to look forward, but Huang Zhong is different, Huang Zhong has seen too many things over the years, Cao Wu just said that he trusted, and he couldn't buy Huang Zhong.
And at such a critical moment, giving this strong bow to Huang Zhong and giving him the opportunity to appear in front of others, so that he can make a name for himself in front of the Ten Thousand Armies, it is more effective than how many times he laughs and then untied.
Only in this way can Huang Zhong feel Cao Wu's heart and be loyal to him.
With Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Biqiu Jian, if Chen Dao can be subdued again, and Zhao Yan, who is desperate, and a series of generals such as Zhang Liao, Cao Zhen, and Wen Ping, who are kind to him, can help, and the military generals in his Beifu team will surpass the small princes all the way, and no matter what changes in the world at that time, Cao Wu can be prepared.
On the side, Lu Xun was worried: "But can General Huang shoot that head into Guangxin City?" ”
Cao Wu looked up at the distance of Guangxin City, he didn't know much about the way of bows and arrows, there were strong crossbows in his northern mansion, but it was inconvenient to carry and could not be carried in the south.
But he could see that if Huang Zhong didn't have a human head on the arrow, he could threaten the city wall, but now Zhao Yun was standing at the head of the city without dodging, that could only mean one thing, Zhao Yun judged that Huang Zhong's arrow with a human head could not be shot on the city wall.
That being the case, then......
"Suffered, General Huang may have to take risks!"
Cao Wu judged it, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Wen Yuan, Wen Chang!" ”
Zhang Liao and Wei Yan had already geared up and rode out of the crowd.
"Clear the way for General Huang!"
Cao Wu gave the order.
Strictly speaking, Cao Wu is not the leader of this army, he has the Scepter of the Son of Heaven, but he has never taken it out.
But the generals began to obey Cao Wu in battles again and again, admiring his judgment and decisiveness, Wei Yan was not to mention that he wanted to be conquered by Cao Wu, and even Zhang Liao, a general, did not hesitate to obey the order.
The two of them rode a red horse and a white horse, and rushed out like two horses.
At this moment, Huang Zhong's bowstring had already been drawn into a full moon, and he really did not shoot an arrow, but leaned down on the horse's back, and walked forward with his feet between the horse's belly.
His war horse is also the best horse in the county, and as soon as he runs, he speeds towards the city.
Zhao Yun in the city reacted quickly and shouted: "He is going to close the distance and shoot arrows again!" ”
Wu Ju suddenly realized, and hurriedly shouted: "Release the arrow, release the arrow!" ”
When the defenders of the city heard this, they hurriedly bent their bows and prepared to shoot arrows.
"Whoosh!"
The arrows were shot at the charging old general, who seemed to be on the line of life and death, keeping his hands in the posture of pulling the bowstring, relying on the horses in disguise to dodge the arrows, and did not even block.
He was dressed in full armor, and the occasional arrow that hit him was bounced off by the armor before it hit his vital point.
But there are always one or two that hit areas that weren't covered by armor, such as the calf.
But none of this stopped Huang Zhong's advance, and his horse was approaching the city gate at the fastest speed.
Zhao Yun hurriedly took a few more steps, took an arrow from the back of the little soldier just now, and took it up.
He aimed at Huang Zhong, who was charging under the city tower, and without thinking too much, the arrow was shot.
Unlike the arrows of the creeps, his arrows are fast, the speed of the arrows is also fast, and the accuracy is excellent.
The arrow went straight to the place where Huang Zhong had no armor, but this time it wasn't a calf, but-
Nape!
Huang Zhong, who was bowing his head and constantly changing directions to charge, didn't know that a feathered arrow that was fully capable of killing him had already reached his approach.
If this arrow hits, then his idea of repaying Cao Wuzhi's kindness will come to naught.
And he himself, like the head of his own arrow, will die in this southern spring.